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AI Whispering

Building Xojo Apps with Cursor AI

Issue: 24.1 (January/February 2026)
Author: Michelle Parker
Author Bio: Michelle taught herself HyperCard when she bought her first computer and then WebObjects when Apple bought NeXT. She's written many apps with REALbasic from the early 2000's to Xojo in 2025. Her company, Web Objectives, is based in Sydney, Australia.
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This article is an in-depth follow-up to the post (https://forum.xojo.com/t/new-mac-app-built-with-ai-in-2-weeks/87095) on the Xojo forum AI thread. In that post, I discussed my app, Reflect Video (https://www.webobjectives.com.au/reflect-video.html), which was built with Cursor AI writing directly to a Xojo project (see Figure 1).

ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Xojo Jade, NightCafe, and other AIs were also used for different tasks, including research, logo generation, and the supporting website, but this article looks in detail at the development process with Cursor AI.

Problem and Solution

Back in 2013, I began a photography learning journey with CreativeLive, and over the years, I purchased many of their video courses. They announced in November 2025 that they would be shutting down and notified customers to download their videos to keep offline.

Downloading videos before was possible but one at a time, so most customers did not. But luckily, they provided an app to download all purchased courses and videos automatically, so customers did.

I found that managing my 220 courses, 4000 video files, and 1.5TB of data was impossible to do manually. So, as an old-school developer, I built an app. I could play all the course videos in sequential order and navigate and search all the downloaded courses and videos.

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